Oddest Publication You've Ever Written For

"The Midnight Conference," a Batman fanzine in the late 1980s.

I was the regular reviewer for the monthly Batman comic in it. It lasted several years, until the popularity of the 1989 Batman movie made the character a cash cow, and poor Martin Noreau (the publisher/editor) was served with a cease and desist by Warner, who have absolutely no sense of humor at all (Martin was a Canadian, so perhaps I should say "humour.")

Actually, I guess that's not all that odd, just quirky. I certainly loved writing for it at the time, though reading through those issues again 20 years later (yes, I still have all the hardcopies) is QUITE a cringe-inducing experience....

Hmmm...there were a couple of loooooooong defunct underground newspapers in the 60s (one of which I started with some friends). Suppose they don't count.

Maybe the oddest was a band's profile for a bluegrass magazine. It was the 70s and I was a rock n' roller. I had no interest in, or familiarity with bluegrass music. But a photographer friend (and bluegrass aficionado) called saying that in a moment of insanity he'd agreed to shoot this band and write a piece about them and one of their bar gigs. He couldn't write worth a lick and offered half his fee and he'd pick up my bar tab, if I'd come along and write it.

Couldn't turn that down.

My only published article in a magazine was a Disney movie review for The Living Wilderness. Only because my father was president of the Wilderness Society. It was Nature's Half Acre. I also had photographs published in Audubon Magazine, but there's nothing weird about that.

I refuse to say!

Amazing Stories, 1926. She's now gone, but not forgotton by me. I was there in two issues--1988, I think it was.

Tri

I never wrote for them, but I once had an interview to be an editor for Lubricants World.

No, it's not what you think.

It's a trade magazine for folks who make industrial greases and cooking oils and the like.

But it would have been worth getting the job just to print out some business cards.

My first real sale was an article on marketing wool that appeared in Sheep!, a magazine for professional shepherds.

I've written a few stories for a little magazine that publishes nothing but stories about Manhattan--Kansas, that is.

Maintenance and Repair Magazine

It was a magazine for building supers in Oregon. I did a profile.

I had an Alzheimer's-based romance published in a disability magazine. I got nice fan mail, too!

My first short story sale was for Acreage Magazine. It's a farming magazine from the midwest and my short story was the first piece of fiction they published!